This week, NYP TV Sports’ Andrew Marchand spoke with Fox Sports’ Joe Buck. Buck, 36, has called eight World Series and one Super Bowl.

Q: The biggest criticism that I hear about you is you try to be too funny. What do you hear from people?

A: I would say I hear responses that cover it all. I certainly don’t try to take it in a direction that it shouldn’t go. I just try to liven it up or lighten it up sometimes. I try to have fun with it.

Q: How do you approach a game?

A: It is a three-hour sporting event. It is not changing a tile on the space shuttle. I don’t know if it is that serious to begin with.

Q: What is the difference between working with Tim McCarver and Troy Aikman?

A: Not much, as funny as that sounds. They are both extra prepared. Neither one gets references that I bring up during the course of the game. They look at me sometimes sideways like, “What are you talking about?” It is kind of what makes it fun for me to kind of shock them a little bit. I figure if I say something that gets Troy’s attention or Tim’s attention, it is reaching a few viewers who are out there watching our games. They both were excellent athletes and professionals and they both really care to do a great job.

Q: What is an average week, Monday through Sunday, like for Joe Buck?

A: Monday though Friday is a bunch of nothing. Monday through Friday is dropping kids off at school, picking kids up, doing homework, taking kids to swimming practice, a few workouts sprinkled in and a lot of reading.

Then you show up at the game site, Friday or Saturday. You prepare there and you go on Sunday and have fun and do the game. And you try to get home as quickly as you can. It is not a real involved week. It is a lot of home preparation for the weekend and a lot of time with my family.

Q: So why would you want to do a talk show one day? [Buck has worked as a fill-in on CBS’ Late Late Show and has considered trying to be a late-night talk show host full-time.]

A: That is a great question. It is one that work-wise would be 10 times what I do right now. That is not to say that I mail it in, but it is not a 9-to-5 job and it is not a Monday-through-Friday job. It is prepare on your own time and get ready and then go do a sporting event. It is a fun life and it is something I don’t take for granted.